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By Dr Estelle De Beer, Naturopathic Doctor at SleepDrops International, c/o Health 2000 There’s never been a more important time to protect your mental health. While stress-busting activities like meditation can help, prioritising your sleep is one of the easiest and most enjoyable ways to help you wake up with a stronger mindset, ready to face any day. Deep, restorative sleep is essential for building the hormones and neurotransmitters that help you regulate your mood, emotions and stress, which is why even one sleepless night can leave you feeling grumpy, irrational, anxious or stressed. An increase in stress can then make it even harder to sleep - it’s a vicious cycle!...

Human anatomy is incredibly complex! While there are many similarities between women's and men's bodies, there are certain female functions which depend on the right nutrients to help ladies feel and move at their best. Let’s look at nutrients which are particularly pivotal for women’s health. Collagen and hyaluronic acid are naturally-occurring substances found in your body. Through age, your collagen production slows and your elastin fibres break, thicken, and lose their elasticity. Hyaluronic acid is needed to bind collagen for skin elasticity and repairing cell growth. It attracts water to your skin and minimises the appearance of wrinkles. Gamma linolenic acid (GLA) is an omega 6 fatty acid that’s essential for...

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Immune Health - Are you Ready? We tend to think about immunity in winter when we’re more likely to catch a bug doing the rounds. But the reality is that our immune systems need to work hard all year round to keep us healthy. Our immune system is a complex group of cells, tissues and organs that work together to defend our body against invaders. That could be anything and includes winter ills and chills. These nasties can compromise health and make us sick.A healthy immune system creates barriers that stops these invaders (called antigens) entering our body. If one gets through, the immune system...